Hillsboro recorder. (Hillsboro, N.C.) 1887-18??, 1887-09-08
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McGarrlglc, the chicago, Ill. Hboo.
dlern who escaped to Victoria B. C., has
fed to Hong Kong, China.
Isaac Lucas, treasurer Of Wapoketta.
Ohio, and $31, 900 OF the county fund,
are missing. A reward of $4,000 is Of
fered for information Of the whereabouts
OF Lucas.
A conspiracy against the Spanish gov
ernment has been discovered at Ponce,
Porto Rico. Forty persons have been
arrested, including the president Of the
autcnofiist Club
Yom Phon Lee, the Chinaman, who
recently married an American heiress OF
New Haven, Conn.,, has accepted posi-.
tion on the editorial staff OF the New
Haven Register.
Frank G, McNeally, 10 ysars Of age,
employed In tile Biddeford savings
bank Of Saco, Me-, ran away with all
the banks money and securities amount
ing to nearly $500, 600.
Henry Georges friends in New York
have subscribed s15,0 for the estab-
lishment Of an evening paper to be called
the Evening Standard. It will make its
appearance on September 18th.
The collector of customs at Suspension
Bridge, N. Y, has seized the Canadian
steamer Hastings, for violation Of nayi-
gatiUn laws in carrying passengers be-
tween Lewiston and olcott, two Ameri-
can potts.
Gen. Ferron, the French secretary of
war, has caused two Of his private Sec
retariee TO be arrested on d charge Of
high treason. Il is charged that they
disclosed to the Paris Figaro the plans of
the war Office for the mobilization OF
French troops.
The London Times protests against the
treatment to which British sealers, in
Behring sea, are subjected BY American
authorities in Alaska, and suggests that
the government send a cruiser to Alaskan
waters, 10 secure strictly legal treatment
for British vessels.
George A. Ely, OF Pottsyille, Pa,
docket clerk to the county commission
ers, suddenly disappeared. Subsequent
investigation has revealed the fact that
Ely has been engaged in forging and me-
gotiating county bonds, one OF S400
having been traced 10 him.
The police order forbidding the So
cialists TO celebrate the death of Ferdi-
nand Lassale at Berlin, Germany, did not
have the desired effect, as thousands 81
the followers Of the great labor union
organizer made a pilgrimage TO Grupau.
A serious row occurred during the day,
and several arrests were made by the po-
lice.
Two cattle dealers Of Womelsdoorf,
Pa, purchased q number Of car loads of
cattle at the Buffalo stock yards, which
were sold TO different farmers. Some of
the steers showed signs Of alarming
sickness, and were found in their stalls
dead. DR.. Bridge, state veterinary sur
geon, says the disease Is Texas fever.
Farmers are greatly alarmed, fearing
spread Of the disease.
Robert Bonner drove Maud s. on the
three-quarter-mile track on his farm, al
Tarrytown, N. u, the fastest mile that
has every been made TO wagon. The first
half was made in :OsI, and the last half
in l:04i. making the mile in 2:i3i.
Mr.. Bonner urged the mare only on the
last half, when she made the marvellous
time Of 1:O4l to wagon on a three
quarter track.
Fresh condemnation OF Pasteur has
been stirred up by the death Of Lord Don.
erailc, 10 France. Donerailc was bitten
by a tame fox, and although lie under.
went the Pasteur treatment, he died in
fightful agonies, and with All the symp-
toms Of hydrophobia. Pasteur declares
that he did not see Doncrailc until two
weeks after the fox had bitten him, and
when Il was too late 10 announce cure
with absolute certainty.
An attempt was made to burn bridge
over culyert on the Wabash Railroad,
one mile east Of Lafayette, Ind A.
freight train came around the cnrve At
full speed and the engineer seeing the fire,
put on steam and passed over safely. The
second section Of the train was tagged
and stopped before il reached the bridge
and the trainmen put out the fire. As
the engineer OF the first train reached
the burning bridge he saw men run cut
from q hiding place near by and disip.
pear In the woods.
The American ship Ropes, 1900 tons
burthen, the largest ship that ever sailed
into Puget sound, arrived in Tacoma,
w. II, being 20 days from Yokohoma
with 3,77i tons Of Tea and other mcr
chandise for Chicago, Boston and Phila.
delphia merchants. The ship, Alexander
Gibson, Is due in few days from the
same port. The arrival Of the Ropts l.
the beginning Il direct trade between
Yokohoma AM Tacoma, goes Eastward
by $50 cars Of the Northern Pacific iail.
road. The value Of the cargo Of The
ship i si, 100000.
As q freight tain on The Cleveland &
Marietta Railroad neared Oldham's tres.
tle, -four mics north Of Cambridge,
Ohio, the bridge was seen 20 be on fire.
The engineer called for brakes, but as the
trainmen thought Il was too late 10 save
the train several of them jumped. The
fireman, VIM. Adams, had leg broken
and was otherwise hurt. Other jumping
trainmen were severely injured. The
engine aud oil the train. except three
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